Morgan

Favorite films

  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Days of Eclipse
  • Philip Guston: A Life Lived
  • Crimes of the Future

All
  • The Lonedale Operator

  • Cymbeline

    ★½

  • Philip Guston: A Life Lived

    ★★★★★

  • The Shrouds

    ★★★★

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The Lonedale Operator

2020

Liked Watched

short flick featuring the greatest modern poet who graced this earth and the movies that impacted his work. what's not to like?

Cymbeline

2014

★½ Watched

i usually enjoy shakespeare adaptations but this was just not good. some humorous moments but overall clunky. i felt nothing about it. the director was very nice though

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Annie Hall

1977

★★★★½ Watched

really excellent and fun. alvy manages to be both charming and grating (him telling annie “another Balzac novel finished” after they have sex is the type of annoying thing that made me laugh). Not sure if I’ve seen a movie capture the nature of relationships from their start to their dissolution so accurately. I also related fully to annie hall just as a character (also chuckled when she was very recklessly driving alvy upstate). I haven’t been in love in a long time and sometimes you forget what it’s like. this movie reminded me of that feeling which was nice.

Chime

2024

★★★★½ Liked Watched

an empty uncaring world with a thin veneer of politeness covering it all. played with some of my expectations in interesting ways, this all consuming black void taking hold of more than just our main character at unanticipated points. i like the idea of ghosts in this movie in the abstract - they themselves seem to amplify this all-consuming void, they appear to us as nothing in their form but their emptiness is all encoming, fully palpable. the main character's…